Stop the War Coalition convener Lindsey German said it is just the start of a concerted campaign to fend off the attacks on Britain’s poorest launched by Chancellor George Osborne from “planet Downing Street.”

“I hope the media will give at least a fair hearing to the alternative point of view and not swallow this nonsense that the economy is improving and living standards are improving when they are not.”

Mr Corbyn said the surging support for the People’s Assembly showed the Labour Party “that a more radical approach would actually reap much greater political rewards.”

Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman said he would press other council leaders “to say ‘no more’ to cuts.”

The independent, recently re-elected after his first five-year term, said the council had “absorbed” £130 million worth of cuts over the last four years but the £70m planned for the next two would hack away at vital services.

“Enough is enough. I urge people to join the march.”

SCOTTISH anti-austerity activists yesterday sent solidarity greetings to the huge People’s Assembly demonstration in London and revealed their own packed calendar of resistance: here.

ANGLICAN monks will join today’s massive march against austerity in London today in protest at the “greed and selfishness” of the Con-Dem coalition: here.